Adolf von Stählin

Adolf von Stählin, around 1886

Adolf Stählin , later Knight von Stählin , (born October 27, 1823 in Schmähingen , † May 4, 1897 in Munich ) was senior consistorial president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria .

Stählin studied Protestant theology and philosophy in Erlangen from 1840 to 1844 . During his studies he joined the student union Uttenruthia Erlangen in the winter semester of 1840/41 . He was vicar in Ostheim in 1847 and vicar in Aha near Gunzenhausen in 1849 . From 1850 to 1866 he was pastor in various Bavarian parishes, from 1866 to 1879 consistorial councilor in Ansbach and from 1879 to 1883 senior consistorial councilor in Munich. In 1880 he received an honorary doctorate from the theological faculty in Erlangen. In 1883 he was appointed senior consistorial president by King Ludwig II and held this office until 1896.

His sermons were printed many times and were widely used. In addition, he also dealt with questions of church history and church law, for example with Justin the Martyr (1880) and Philipp Melanchthon (1897).

As the eldest of 14 children of the pastor Martin Stählin (1781–1855) and Ida Brack (1796–1885), Stählin was a member of a well-known family of theologians and scholars. One of his sisters was the superior of Neuendettelsau Therese Stählin , his nephews include the theologian and bishop Wilhelm Stählin and the classical philologist Otto Stählin .

literature

Julius von Kelber: Stählin, Adolf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, pp. 435-440.
Friedrich Wilhelm Kantzenbach : Adolf von Stählin and the regional church. Observations on the path of the Bavarian regional church from 1848 to 1871 and on to 1918 , in: ZBayerKG 40 , 1971, pp. 206–226.

Ulrich Schwab: Adolf von Stählin. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 10, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X , Sp. 1111-1112. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

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Works by and about Adolf von Stählin in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

^ History of the Church in Schmähingen (accessed December 31, 2018).
^ Leopold Petri (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. Fourth edition, Bremerhaven 1908, p. 165, no.502.
↑ See Heinrich Gürsching: Ahnenprobe Stählin . In: Quatember 1953, pp. 222-224 ; Otto Stählin u. a .: The Stählin family from Memmingen (German Family Archives. Vol. 11). 1959.

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Matthias Meyer	Senior Consistorial President of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria 1883–1897	Alexander von Schneider

personal data
SURNAME	Stahlin, Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stählin, Adolf Ritter von; Stahlin, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German clergyman, senior consistorial president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
DATE OF BIRTH	October 27, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH	Abuse
DATE OF DEATH	May 4, 1897
Place of death	Munich

[1] History of the Church in Schmähingen (accessed December 31, 2018).

[2] Leopold Petri (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. Fourth edition, Bremerhaven 1908, p. 165, no.502.

[3] See Heinrich Gürsching: Ahnenprobe Stählin . In: Quatember 1953, pp. 222-224 ; Otto Stählin u. a .: The Stählin family from Memmingen (German Family Archives. Vol. 11). 1959.